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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INVALIDED, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poet's Biography First Line: He limps along the city street Last Line: A life he cannot give. Subject(s): World War I - Casualties | |||
HE limps along the city street, Men pass him with a pitying glance; He is not there, but on the sweet And troubled plains of France. Once more he marches with the guns, Reading the way by merry signs, His Regent Street through trenches runs, His Strand among the pines. For there his comrades jest and fight, And others sleep in that fair land; They call him back in dreams of night To join their dwindling band. He may not go; on him must lie The doom, through peaceful years to live, To have a sword he cannot ply, A life he cannot give. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MORNING PAPER by KATHARINE LEE BATES FOR THE FALLEN (SEPTEMBER 1914) by LAURENCE BINYON TRAFALGAR SQUARE by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES 1914: 3. THE DEAD by RUPERT BROOKE 1914: 4. THE DEAD by RUPERT BROOKE BETWEEN THE LINES by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON RUPERT BROOKE by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON AVE CRUX, SPES UNICA! by EDWARD SHILLITO |
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